CCAFS-MOT: a mitigation options tool for agriculture

The CCAFS Mitigation Options Tool (CCAFS-MOT) estimates greenhouse gas emissions from multiple crop and livestock management practices in different geographic regions, providing policy-makers across the globe access to reliable information needed to make science-informed decisions about emissions reductions from agriculture.

Access the guidelines and download the CCAFS-MOT in excel. This Beta version is ready to use! It was most recently updated in November 2016. By design, the CCAFS-MOT is occasionally updated to include the most recent information in the sector and to improve functionality based on user feedback.

CCAFS-MOT joins several empirical models to estimate GHG emissions from different land uses and considers mitigation practices that are compatible with food production. Several studies informed the mitigation potentials are used in the tool. Several GHG calculators now available calculate emissions from either single crops or whole farms. Unlike these agricultural calculators, CCAFS-MOT:

Ranks the most effective mitigation options for 34 different crops according to mitigation potential and in relation to current management practices and spatially-linked climate and soil characteristics.